acumen® Cellista Laser Scanning Imaging Cytometer

acumen® Cellista – the fastest high content screening system. acumen Cellista is a microplate-based laser scanning imaging cytometer designed to provide rapid, whole well, content-rich cytometric and image based analysis. It has your high content screening data imaged and ready in as little as 5 minutes, making it the fastest HCS system available today. acumen is the go-to system for phenoty...read more

"The Acumen Cellista is a flexible platform that enables a wide range of fluorescence assays, from common cell/bead counting and total fluorescence measurements to specialized whole organism imaging and 3D cell culture applications. Cellista offers the highly qualitative data of a ~4X imager with the speed of a typical multimode plate reader. Laser excitation and a large depth of field reliably capture even low expression fluorophores without the need to focus on each well. Cellista is less suited for subcellular resolution imaging nor trying to segment confluent cells, though. The images can also be taken as TIFFs and analyzed in other software suites.
Ease of use: My facility functions as a staff assisted HTS/equipment core, and I find that I am able to train most users to operate the instrument independently within 1-3 hours. The Cellista software package is very powerful yet approachable to end users.
After Sales Care: TTPLabtech has excellent after-sales care. The customer-vendor relationship continues well beyond the purchase, and the support is fast and efficient. Difficult questions are automatically advanced to the appropriate engineer and answers are quick to follow. TTPLabtech being a UK-based company, I was initially concerned that support is 6 hours ahead, but the US team is excellent and I am now convinced that some of the UK folks are either nocturnal or simply don’t sleep.
Value for Money: This is a tricky question. The Acumen is immensely valuable in an HTS environment and traffic and demand on the instrument are high and only continue to grow in my facility. It does come with a nontrivial price tag, and there are cheaper (slower) high content scopes on the market. Still, I would definitely recommend the Acumen Cellista for applications benefiting from speed, sensitivity and ease of use."

Description

acumen® Cellista – the fastest high content screening system.

acumen Cellista is a microplate-based laser scanning imaging cytometer designed to provide rapid, whole well, content-rich cytometric and image based analysis. It has your high content screening data imaged and ready in as little as 5 minutes, making it the fastest HCS system available today.

acumen is the go-to system for phenotypic screening, where it complements existing imaging expertise and maximises workflow throughputs. It images the whole well and provides both cytometric data and open source TIFFs allowing rapid, content rich data to identify compounds of interest. Where number of compounds screened is critical, wells of interest can be selected for more in depth analysis using the TIFF images.

Benefits of acumen Cellista include:

fast

profile compound libraries in hours which is not effected by well density or microplate type (96- to 3456-well plates)

unique and patented method of simultaneous data capture and analysis allowing results to be obtained immediately